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YES! Finally, a reviewer totally captures what I felt about the film Cabin in the Woods. This review by abigail nussbaum in "Asking the Wrong Questions" explains in perfect detail all my issues with Cabin in the Woods and why I was underwhelmed by it:

http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2012/04/cabin-in-woods.html

Don't you love it when someone else perfectly articulates your half-formed thoughts? I tried to write a review explaining it - but she does it better. And I agree, the spoilery twist, revealed at the outset and in the trailers, doesn't help the movie.

Four things before a shower...and bed.

1. Weird LJ question: "Is fanfiction the lazy way out?"

Uh. In what regard? Or in relation to whom? The original writer who refuses to answer key questions about his characters or write a dense fanfic proof story (although I seriously doubt such a thing exists, people write fanfiction about Mad Men and Game of Thrones and you can't get denser than that)?

No. I don't think it is a lazy way out. ( Fanfiction a Lazy way out? )

2. I don't ship writers. I may follow writers, but not quite the same thing. Shipping a writer, means you are "fannish" about the "writer" - you want their autograph, they can do no wrong, you ...secretly adore them or not so secretly. And you want to kill people like myself who feel this weird inclination to rip their works apart, put them back together, rip again. Rip them apart. Adore them. Then rip them some more. Keep in mind, shipping writers is sort of counter to being an English Lit Major who has been trained over a four year period to rip the dudes apart in a lengthy thesis. We're taught to be intensely critical of what we love. ( Why I don't ship writers )

3. Should take a shower, had to skip it this morning...overslept. But made it to work five minutes early - score! Besides needed the sleep more than the shower. But feel icky now.

4. Don't judge me or shoot me but after a slight detour, I am back to reading smutty dime-store novels. Actually dime-store novels go for $9.99 on the Kindle nowadays. ( look away, look away...I actually compare over-hyped smutty novel to over-hyped gory horror movie...and if you have no clue what I'm talking about, consider yourselves lucky or possibly living under a rock. )